On Jun 7, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> Does anybody know the maintenance state of Akregator? Are any aKregator 
> haxx0rz still with KDE development?

I am the maintainer, but I am lacking both time and motivation to work on it. And nobody else appeared so far to take over.

> I am asking cause
> 
> Bug 116482 -  metakit: akregator crashes at startup
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116482
> 
> collects duplicates like dust without anyone apparently working on it.
> 
> Actually I cannot reproduce it at all since ages, Akregator just works for 
> me, but AFAIR there have been several mk4-Files posted that should trigger 
> the problem.

The issue is known for a long time, and easy to trigger, by using any corrupted mk4 file. The problem is that metakit allocates memory after reading the size of some value in the db. If that value is bogus, which means it's some random value, and far too high most of the time and the process either starts to allocate huge amounts of memory or just crashes (if the value is above the OS limit), or both.
The only real solution I see is to move away from metakit to Akonadi. That was started (krss) and is now lingering in the akonadi-ports branch, but it needs someone with both time and motivation (see above) to complete it.

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